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Packaging, Table 9: linux driver packaging – Allied Telesis NetExtreme II Adapters User Manual

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Broadcom iSCSI offload initiators is supported on SLES 10 SP1. Testing is
concentrated on i386 and x86_64 architectures, Red Hat EL5, and SUSE
10 SP1 distributions.

Packaging

The Linux driver is released in the packaging formats shown in Table 9.
The NetXtreme2 package contains the bnx2 (1 Gb network adapter) and
drivers for source RPM and compressed tar.

Identical source files to build the driver are included in both RPM and TAR
source packages. The supplemental tar file contains additional utilities
such as patches and driver diskette images for network installation.

The following updated open-iSCSI components are released in source
RPM format:

iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.868-0.7c.src.rpm: updated open-iscsi for Red
Hat 5 distributions

open-iscsi-2.0.707-0.25b.src.rpm: updated open-iscsi components for
SLES 10 SP1 distribution

open-iscsi-2.0.707-0.44b.src.rpm: updated open-iscsi components for
SLES 10 SP2 distribution

Table 9. Linux Driver Packaging

Format

bnx2 Driver

bnx2i (iSCSI) Driver

Source RPM

netxtreme2-
version.src.rpm

bnx2i-version.src.rpm

Compressed tar

netxtreme2-
version.tar.gz

bnx2i-version.tar.gz

Supplemental tar netxtreme2_sup-

version.tar.gz

bnx2i_sup-version.tar.gz